Metro News & Reviews

Transportation headlines, Wednesday, Dec. 23

Rumors of a possible lawsuit by West L.A. residents over the final environmental impact report for Phase 2 of the Expo Line are reported on LA Streetsblog and over at Curbed LA. The issue is how the train cuts through a slice of West Los Angeles immediately south of the Westside Pavilion — namely, should it be at street level or underground? The Construction Authority’s Board is due to vote on the FEIR on Feb. 4. What remains unknown is the degree to which such a lawsuit could slow or halt construction of the line, which is scheduled to open between Culver City and Santa Monica in 2015.

It took a lawsuit, but Caltrans has agreed to spend more than a billion dollars upgrading about 2,500 miles of sidewalk to be more accessible to the disabled, reports the L.A. Times. Most of the sidewalks and crosswalks that will be fixed are near state roads or park-and-ride lots.

And get this: if you’re on a subway train under San Francisco Bay and really, really need to find out what Bruce Springsteen played last night or who is going to skate on the Kings’ fourth line next week, there’s now wi-fi service available to BART passengers. The S.F. Chronicle has a short on this very cool development.

The rest of today’s transportation headlines, gathered once again by the mighty Metro library, are after the jump.